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Why did the women appeal from
John Barton Payne's South Park
board to Gov. Dunne when they
' couldn't get Grant Park.
Doesn't the appeal go to the I. C.
Railway?
The war between Mexico and Wil
lie Randolph Hearst is as fierce as
ever.
Willie has unmasked his battery of
popguns and is shooting Mexico full
of holes.
It is a cute little war, and isn't
hurting anybody because. Mexico
doesn't know Willie is fighting and
Willie is having-tne time of his life.
Some day Willie may call Carranza
up by long distance" and call him rude
names.
Isn't war hell, though?
Willie's ferocity reminds us of how
a boy described a battle of the civil
war. He said:
"The captain came out with his
cannafire, gunned off a shoot and
killed a boy."
Officers of the Western Federation
of Miners have been sued in the
courts of Los Animas Co., .Colorado,
by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.
All the trust sues for is $1,000,000.
The interesting thing about it is
that the coal trust of Colorado owns
all of Los Animas county, including
the courts and the judges thereof.
The trial might as well take place
before the coal operators themselves.
Many of the judges in Colorado are
merely judicial prostitutes kept
judges.
The kept newspapers got all work
ed up because Harold McCormick is
doing jury duty.
Why is Harold different from any
other twq-legged juror?
Is it because he is related by mar
riage to old John D. Rockefeller?
It's funny how this town gets
windy over anybody named McCor
mick. Judging by public service Ruth
Hanna McCormick is the ablest man
PEOPLE AND THINGS
in the family. H
Why waste American lives and am
munition killing Mexicans when they
are so all-fired wiling to do that lit
tle job themselves?
Wouldn't it be' better to let them
civilize one another in that old-fashioned,
Cain-and-Abel brotherly man
ner? What's the real difference between
passing phoney money, obtaining
money under false pretenses and sell
ing butterine for butter?
Answer The men who sell butter
ine for butter are rich and respect
able. Likewise, leading, influential
and prominent.
Bet "Handsome Jack" Koetters
wishes he was a woman.
So, more of the butterine kings are
coming up to answer to graft
charges. All right let 'em come. And
them as is guilty soak 'em hard.
Gosh, it's getting so we don't know
whether we are using butterine, but-,
ter or bedswax.
The idea that we are getting stung
at all suggests the beeswax.
We are expecting, most any day,
to find that we have been eating
china eggs. (Meaning the kind that,
coaxes a hen to produce.)
Folks say that California is having
its best weather in years.
We are glad of that, all right, but
it isn't just right that the coast folks,
grab it all. Steer a little toward Chi
cago. Gov. Dunne pardoned Convict)
A915, thereby giving Baby Vallie a,
name and a father. And humanity
played its trump card.
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NEVER HAS TO WAKE
The doer always has it on the
dreamer, because he never has to,
wake up. Milwaukee Sentinel. i
Those Portland, Ore., women made
sick by tobacco smoke in City Hall,
and Court House should encourage
the men to smoke a better brand.